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Monday, February 23, 2009

Happy Monday

No post today, but I hope to have something up tomorrow. This virus or whatever that is circling the nation keeps settling on my house and it's made life a revolving door of misery. Anyway, I'll work hard to have something to entertain y'all for tomorrow, which happens to be Mardi Gras and one of the biggest holidays in the city.

[T]he Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.